Backlash against welfare mothers : past and present /
Ellen Reese considers the politics of welfare in the U.S. from the 1940s to the present, offering a historical perspective on the current debates over 'welfare mothers' & showing how racism has played a large part in the formulation of popular conceptions regarding welfare.
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Dreams deferred, broken families, and hardship : the impacts of welfare reform
- Attacking welfare, promoting work and marriage : continuity and change in welfare opposition
- The first welfare backlash (1945/1979)
- The 1950s welfare backlash and federal complicity
- Explaining the postwar rise of welfare opposition
- The Southern welfare backlash : Georgia and Kentucky
- The Northern and Western welfare backlashes : California and New York
- Setting the stage : the failures of liberal innovation
- The contemporary welfare backlash (1980/2004)
- The rise of the Republican right and new Democrats
- Business interests, conservative think tanks, and the assault on welfare
- The contemporary welfare backlash, 1980/2004
- Rebuilding the welfare state : forging a new deal for working families.